Special Forces Group Flashes
See The SF Teamhouse Flash Page
for a more comprehensive list.

1^st Special Forces
Ft. Lewis, WA

3^rd Special Forces
Ft. Bragg, NC

5^th Special Forces
Vietnam Era

5^th Special Forces
Ft. Campbell, KY

6^th Special Forces
Vietnam Era '63 - '71
Ft. Bragg, NC

7^th Special Forces
Ft. Bragg, NC

8^th Special Forces
Vietnam Era '63 - '72

9^th Special Forces
Vietnam Era '61 - '66

10^th Special Forces
Ft. Carson, CO

11^th Special Forces
US Army Reserve

12^th Special Forces
US Army Reserve

19^th Special Forces
US National Guard

20^th Special Forces
US National Guard

John F. Kennedy
Center for Special
Warfare & School
Ft. Bragg, NC

US Army Rank Insignia

Additional information on US Military Rank Insignia:

• Enlisted Rank Insignia (DOD Link)

• Commissioned Rank Insignia (DOD Link)

• Army Medals, Badges, etc.

"Chevron" is an architectural term denoting the rafters of a roof meeting an angle at the upper apex. The chevron in heraldry was employed as a badge of honor to mark the main supporters of the head of the clan or "top of the house" and it came to be used in various forms as an emblem of rank for knights and men-at-arms in feudal days.  The use of the chevron to signify position within the enlisted ranks continues to this day.

More information regarding insignia history being developed.

• Private: having attained no title of rank, a ‘private soldier’.
• Corporal: influenced by ‘corps’; head, chief.
• Sergeant: servant; attendant upon a knight in the field.
• Lieutenant: an officer representing and exercising powers on behalf of his lord or sovereign.
• Captain: an officer entrusted with a command or fort under a sovereign or general.
• Colonel: an officer commanding a ‘column’ of soldiers and support trains.
• General: originally meant to be of similar ‘birth’ or ‘class’ with a sovereign.
  Currently, the use is to be familiar with all facets of the army,
  no longer a specialist in one area, a ‘general officer’.